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title = "{P}rague Dependency Style Treebank for {T}amil",
author = "Ramasamy, Loganathan and
{\v{Z}}abokrtsk{\'y}, Zden{\v{e}}k",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Do{\u{g}}an, Mehmet U{\u{g}}ur and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'12)",
month = may,
year = "2012",
address = "Istanbul, Turkey",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/456_Paper.pdf",
pages = "1888--1894",
abstract = "Annotated corpora such as treebanks are important for the development of parsers, language applications as well as understanding of the language itself. Only very few languages possess these scarce resources. In this paper, we describe our efforts in syntactically annotating a small corpora (600 sentences) of Tamil language. Our annotation is similar to Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT) and consists of annotation at 2 levels or layers: (i) morphological layer (m-layer) and (ii) analytical layer (a-layer). For both the layers, we introduce annotation schemes i.e. positional tagging for m-layer and dependency relations for a-layers. Finally, we discuss some of the issues in treebank development for Tamil.",
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%T Prague Dependency Style Treebank for Tamil
%A Ramasamy, Loganathan
%A Žabokrtský, Zdeněk
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Doğan, Mehmet Uğur
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12)
%D 2012
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Istanbul, Turkey
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%P 1888-1894
Markdown (Informal)
[Prague Dependency Style Treebank for Tamil](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/456_Paper.pdf) (Ramasamy & Žabokrtský, LREC 2012)
ACL
- Loganathan Ramasamy and Zdeněk Žabokrtský. 2012. Prague Dependency Style Treebank for Tamil. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 1888–1894, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).